Gerald Giam
Gerald Giam, Main Stories, TOC International, Top Story - Tuesday, August 11, 2009 21:21 - 27 Comments
Is Burma going to be Southeast Asia’s Iran or North Korea?
One of the estimated 800 tunnels currently being built in Burma. (Read more about it here.)
Gerald Giam
Asean’s policy of non-interference in member states’ internal affairs has been taken to the extreme to mean closing a blind eye to just about everything Burma does.
Dr Desmond Ball, a professor of strategic and defence studies at Australian National University (ANU), recently published an investigative report that claimed that Burma is secretly building a nuclear reactor and plutonium facilities with the help of North Korea, and aims to possess a nuclear bomb by 2014. Continue…
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